Example sentences of "and [v-ing] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And hanging from a hook in its holster , her father 's army revolver . |
| 2 | There was a turquoise stone set in a pendant and hanging from a fine gold chain at Debbie 's throat . |
| 3 | By the wall stood a rattan couch with cushions ; and hanging from a bracket by the open french windows was a small brightly polished bell with a faded maroon tassel hanging from the clapper . |
| 4 | And at 6.15 Miss Danziger entered the drawing-room , where at least eighteen of the guests were gathered drinking tea and eating from a selection of Danish pastries and pies , and talking with unusual excitement . |
| 5 | although many famous names were missing from the register : notably Moffatt , Nadin , Legrand ( already sure of retaining his crown and recovering from a knee operation ) , Rabatou , Godoffe , Cortijo and Edlinger . |
| 6 | More recently , Russian philologists have proposed a super-family of languages , bigger than Indo-European and deriving from a proto-language ( Nostratic ) twice as old . |
| 7 | There is , however , a large variety of killings which lie above that line but below the line demarcating murder : a killing in which D knew there was a risk of death , but was held not to have intended death or grievous bodily harm , would fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a high sentence ; whereas a killing in which D pushed a person during an argument in the street and the person fell backwards , cracking his head on the kerb and dying from a brain haemorrhage , might also fall within involuntary manslaughter and might justify a low sentence . |
| 8 | He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years . |
| 9 | Next , intermittent or semi-continuous explosions may hurl solid material up in a dense dark mass , with the leading fragments soaring straight up into the air , trailing smaller fragments behind them , and looking from a distance like rockets . |
| 10 | They had disturbed alligators in the shallows of the river , listened to unseen deer bark in the riverside thickets , and a herd of wild pigs had fled snuffling and grunting from a stagnant pool at their approach . |
| 11 | And when it came to moving them around , who was going to take any notice of vehicles coming and going from a hospital ? |
| 12 | After a long-running saga of development companies coming into North Shields and withdrawing from a relatively small-scale development ( 200 000 sq ft overall , 130 000 selling space ) , development of the town centre was begun on part of the original site in 1977 funded by the Coal Industry Pension Fund . |
| 13 | Breaking into and stealing from a caravan is usually the work of casual thieves . |
| 14 | Some 95 per cent of mail order transactions involve credit , and buying from a tallyman or doorstep credit trader virtually by definition means buying on weekly instalments . |
| 15 | They saw what they took to be a wild-eyed drunk , well dressed and bleeding from a blow on the mouth . |
| 16 | In the Christianson and E. F. Loftus ( 1991 ) study subjects were shown a series of slides with a critical slide showing either a woman cycling ( neutral condition ) , a woman lying on the ground near her bicycle and bleeding from a head injury ( arousal condition ) , or a woman carrying her bicycle ( unusual condition ) . |
| 17 | The child , a boy of about two and a half , was unconscious and bleeding from a gash on his head . |
| 18 | The Defence Ministry was ordered to submit proposals for military reform , including reducing the strength of the armed forces and moving from a conscript to a professional army . |
| 19 | Weary of his imprisonment and suffering from a deterioration in his health due to the conditions in the damp and miserable fortress in which he was confined , he could see no alternative . |
| 20 | For Joshua , at sixty-two , and suffering from a bad leg , distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance . |
| 21 | At 33 and suffering from a dislocated shoulder , he wo n't be Britain 's standard-bearer again in Barcelona this summer . |
| 22 | I could hear singing and moaning from a far corner . |
| 23 | It is a sign of being modern and coming from a good family . ’ |
| 24 | This was exacerbated , he added , by many students having no experience of book buying and coming from a ‘ culture ’ in which books were not valued and often from backgrounds unsympathetic to academic development . |
| 25 | A few days short of his fifteenth birthday , Gert attempted suicide , cutting his wrist and jumping from a third-floor window . |
| 26 | The objects , which are selected by dragging and dropping from a menu , could for example , reference patient name , number and admission date in a hospital administration system . |
| 27 | The objects , which are selected by dragging and dropping from a menu , could for example , reference patient name , number and admission date in a hospital administration system . |
| 28 | I was even asked to remove the jam and icing from a biscuit at a recent party ! |
| 29 | Their meaning can be unravelled by paying attention to the structure of signifying elements and interpreting from a cultural context constituted by history . |
| 30 | The workshop , which was sponsored by WACC , was organised by the All Africa Conference of Churches to examine the role of Christian communication in prophecy and witnessing from a woman 's perspective . |